Scientists model the planets around Trappist-1 and decide that if there's life on one of these planets, there's probably life on more than one of them. Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011 ...

Ever since astronomers announced the discovery of seven exoplanets around the star called TRAPPIST-1, researchers have been diving into the data in an attempt to determine what the planets are like.

Recent observations with the James Webb Space Telescope suggest that the innermost world of the TRAPPIST-1 system has no atmosphere — or at most, it’s extremely thinly veiled with the tattered ...

The hunt for intelligent life beyond Earth has quietly entered a more exacting phase, and one small, cool star has become a proving ground for how serious that search can be. TRAPPIST-1, a dim red ...

Despite being 39 light years from Earth, the TRAPPIST-1 star system has been very much in the news recently. This is not only because the red dwarf has no less than seven Earthlike planets, but three ...

Could the planet TRAPPIST-1 e, located in the habitable zone of its red dwarf star, host liquid water and perhaps even life?

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As exciting as it was, the recent discovery of the TRAPPIST-1 system and its seven potentially habitable planets still left scientists with plenty of questions. One area where they were really left in ...